** Description changed: Backgrounded process with input redirected from a pipe has wrong information in /proc/<pid>/cmdline (it seems to contain the parent process command line). So while the jobs listing shows correct command line for the process, utilities such as ps do not. Can be reproduced as follows: $ mknod mypipe p $ cat <mypipe & [1] 4941 $ jobs -l [1]+ 4941 Running cat < mypipe & $ ps -fp 4941 UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD stevens 4941 3131 0 12:30 pts/18 00:00:00 bash ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Jun 20 12:27:20 2011 Dependencies: - + DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: linux None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux.list] PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: - PATH=/home/username/bin:/opt/scada/../postgresql/bin:/opt/fg/bin:/opt/mmi/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/scada/bin:/opt/ccm/bin - LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=/home/username/bin:/opt/scada/../postgresql/bin:/opt/fg/bin:/opt/mmi/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/scada/bin:/opt/ccm/bin + LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: linux-meta Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686
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